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Moderate Exercise Cuts
Risk of Disease Even Without Weight Loss
posted
01/29/03
Having an abundance of fat surrounding the organs has been
linked to a greater incidence of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
A new study published in The Journal of the
American Medical Association shows how a group of women who worked out for a
year lost an average of only three pounds more than a group that didn't, the
ones who exercised made sharp reductions in the fat in their midsections, where
it appears to be most dangerous.
What the researchers call intra-abdominal fat is
harder to see than the padding immediately under the skin, but having an
abundance of fat surrounding the organs has been linked to a greater incidence
of diabetes, heart disease and cancer.
In the new study, researchers measured the fat
levels of 168 sedentary and overweight postmenopausal women.
Half of the women were required to exercise
moderately for 45 minutes a day, five days a week.
For the first three months, they worked out in
supervised sessions at a gym three days a week. For the next nine months, they
went to the gym at least once a week but did the bulk of their workouts at
home. The other half attended stretching classes once a week.
Twelve months later, the women who worked out —
for an average of 37 minutes five times a week — had made the biggest change in
their bodies' composition, losing about 7 percent of their intra-abdominal fat.
Women who worked out but not quite as much had
significant but smaller reductions. Those who only stretched were essentially
unchanged, both in weight and body composition.
Source: Diabetes In Control.Com.
January 2003 News Article Index
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